"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

…well, at least this bot is on theme here

not tumblr somehow flagging my gifs of this iconic scene in GX dslk;sjfdlksjfklsdjf;lkdj

millenniumlesbian:

Unironically love this fansub going out of its way to point out when the characters are Playing The Card Game Wrong. You’re so right, fansub group from 2006 whose members I will never know. A tribute summon is a normal summon.

Heya, fansub group guy from 2007 today who you now know about! 🙂

Happened to come across this, couldn’t fully tell if the tail end of the post was a little sarcasm–running on low sleep today–but I did want to just note that, while I typically leave side-notes like these for things like quick onscreen translations/etc, I always felt this was worth clarifying due to the error in the Japanese line, where he does say “Special-Summon” (“tokushuu shoukan”) for what’s actually a Normal Summon via Tribute, since it’s not a card’s effect letting him summon Neos. Just so folks watching aren’t too confused, lol.

(Though errors like that are typically dub-side, they can occasionally [though rare] happen on the Japanese side, as well.)

That said, while I have you here, I’d also note that these subs are out of date, since I first started subbing GX with Season 3 going off episode summaries and game knowledge back in late 2007 (with 105 being my first subbed episode, lol); I’d recommend using my Stream Masterpost here! I use it to share my most updated subs, as I eventually redid Season 3 [and went into Season 4 for the first time] once I properly went through Seasons 1 and 2 as I picked up more Japanese, and I’m currently working on revising/finalizing everything [including using DVD-quality video]–not many streaming sites have these up, and I do like how they’ve come out. 🙂

While looking for a reaction shot of Yusei crying for my last keychain post, I dipped into episode 55 and forgot that the last time I played it off my computer, I’d synced the Tomato Subs from ZeXal onto it kldfjsdlkfjsdklfjvfdj

Ahhh, just came across one of my posts on JapanForum from over 11 years ago as I was looking for help when first working on GX’s Kabukid episode 🥲

Have slowly been going through more ZeXal the past weeks–got a bunch going on and all, takes me a while–get back to the WDC for the Kite vs Tron duel, and suddenly there’s Hart’s face on Tron’s causing him to take any shock Tron takes during the duel, what’s up

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In which I mention some back-end issues that’ve slowed down some GX-sub finalizing and more while thinking out loud

(tl;dr recreating a bunch of stuff due to an SSD failure, but not starting from zero)

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Th… This is how not to fansub your anime 😐

Need me some meta analysis of Misawa’s character progression from “You might make a nice rival, #1-kun” to “what’s wrong with wanting your skills to be recognized?” that doesn’t boil down to “they didn’t know what to do with him or his cards so they made him a joke lol”

Hmm, so I’ve seen talk of Tumblr’s post limit going up to 30 or something, but I’m still only able to upload ten photos max; is it one of those things that’s gradually being phased in for people again, or am I missing something, I wonder 🤔

xiranjayzhao:

The creator of Yugioh, Mr. Kazuki Takahashi, has passed away at age 60. He was found on the shore of Nago, Okinawa in scuba diving gear, though the circumstances of his death are still under investigation.

Rest in peace, legend. Thank you for giving me so much, more than you ever could’ve known.

ngl, I’ve had the browser tab in which I saw this under the #yugioh tag open since the news broke, mainly because I was so busy with work and work on my finalized subs that I couldn’t post, but also I suppose in a way because I had to process this for a bit.  I actually found out while waking up an hour before my alarm on Thursday, seeing a notification from a friend DM’ing me about it before I went back to sleep, and I spent most of the day seeing all the condolences and bittersweet/warm thoughts about it on Twitter, the NAC Discord, and elsewhere.

Letting it sink in sometime after some coffee on Thursday, it really is tragic, for one–just given his impact on the broader YGO fandom and culture in general–but also just hard to really imagine, especially with it being an accident as it seems to be.  It’s true that people we like in media or culture being gone at any moment is bound to happen with life being as short as it is (people like Betty White come to mind), but there’s no underselling how much of an impact Takahashi’s work and story/art have had on millions of people.

I know I definitely wouldn’t be who I am or–being the shy kid I was for most of junior and high school not unlike Yugi–have had the friendships I’ve had if I didn’t have the anime/card game based on his manga to grow up with and come of age with, or have the spinoffs it inspired to draw lessons from and get just as attached to in their own ways.  We’ll still have his art and everything to look back to, which is the silver lining here (especially since I still have the rest of the Battle City finals and onwards to read in the manga), though I did always love popping onto his IG to see new art he’d drop or learning about what influence he’d had on the spinoffs as they went on.  It’s comforting to know that he was able to have a major hand in producing DSOD and giving his original story closure, and his cut of Yugi setting up his Duel Disk vs Kaiba will continue to look so good.

Rest in power, king. 👍🏽 And thanks for giving us everything–that which we can see and yet not see.  All our stories end in light–but they’re also all just beginning.

Also, Konami, pls don’t pull a Nickelodeon/Stephen Hillenberg with DM going forward thx (unless it’s reanimating the manga in full or even adapting YGO R ofc)

Me when I finally finished getting this Misawa/Alice preview clip for GX episode 80 all sponsor-textless last night:

tfw drafting up an entire video post as an update on that GX Alice clip editing and saving it as a draft but Tumblr literally eats the entire thing

nightfurylover31:

It happens just before Yusei takes his final turn, when Yami Yugi encourages him. The animation clearly goes along with the lines Yami says in each version. 

sub!Yami: In your era, you have friends who believe in you and await your return. 

Yusei’s demeanor is calm, realizing Yami’s right. He remembers not only the Signers, but everyone else he has met and bonded with. He remembers who he’s fighting for, what he’s protecting. That’s why he can’t give up. 

Now the dub line is obviously different, but still feels very important. 

dub!Yami:  It’s up to you now. It’s your move. Just know that we’re behind you, all of us are.

In this, Yusei is instead caught off guard by Yami’s faith, and it makes sense. For almost his entire life, Yusei was treated like garbage. For where he lived, the connections his father had to Zero Reverse. Yusei always felt he had to carry this tremendous burden, and even shame. Yet here he is with two guys who hardly know him, trusting him completely to save their timelines. And then he’s reminded of how many people he has in his life who do believe in him. How much his life has changed, so he knows he must believe in himself as well.  

Not to really take away from this, but worth considering that the reason some shots look different between the BBT dub and the Japanese version is that, as I remember it, BBT’s dub happened before the DVD release of the Japanese version, which had a lot of different scenes touched up in one way or another from the initial theater run–when 4Kids dubbed it, they were seemingly given the original master to work with and not the touched-up one, which is why shots like the ones below are different between both, in a way kinda like the reverse of what happened when they dubbed the first Pokémon movie (top one being the original/dub version, bottom the touched-up physical release [h/t @specialsummon​ for some of the original/dub screens]):

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